Chapter 3. We will go over the chapter page by page and answer any questions you might have during the Skype session from last week's activity and this week's readings.
Read the file “Rubric-Grading MARC Records” either in the Bb COURSE INFORMATION link (linked in this course wiki as well) and have it at hand as we will discuss this.
Finally, we will talk about the future and the fact that AACR2 is on the way out – well, sooner or later – and for school libraries it will be later than sooner.
We will work with the rules of AACR2 throughout this course although it is being replaced by another system, Resource Description & Access (RDA). Current thinking is that the new system will not affect small libraries a great deal and we will wait for more information about the possible ramifications. For the purposes of this course, we will not discuss RDA until the very end of the course. There has been a lot written about the change to RDA that is scheduled to start in January 2013. Tom Adamich had this to say about RDA and school libraries:
For the school library community, RDA will have a limited impact on the daily cataloging and processing of materials entering school libraries, as, in most cases, teacher-librarians do not modify existing cataloging records created by bibliographic utilities, materials publishers, and other bibliographic record vendors.
However, the knowledge by the school library community that RDA is coming will be of great benefit to school librarians who interact directly with vendors in the acquisition of MARC records. It is at this vendor level that RDA will have the most direct impact. According to Barbara Schultz-Jones; Assistant Professor, School Library Program, Department of Library and Information Sciences - College of Information, University of North Texas; RDA will give online catalogs the potential for new displays of related resources. According to Ms. Schultz-Jones:
I think it's important for school librarians to realize there will be new MARC tags to enable these connections and also realize that the vendors must get going on enabling the displays. When the K-12 students get to college, they will encounter RDA-enabled catalogs, and that means they should be introduced to the potential [provided by RDA rules/processes] early in the K-12 years.
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- Saltzer, Vickie. "RDA & FRBR." Prezi. 3 June 2013. Web. 19 Aug. 2013. <http://prezi.com/rhamxw380cuc/rda-frbr/>.
Finally, we will talk about the future and the fact that AACR2 is on the way out – well, sooner or later – and for school libraries it will be later than sooner.We will work with the rules of AACR2 throughout this course although it is being replaced by another system, Resource Description & Access (RDA). Current thinking is that the new system will not affect small libraries a great deal and we will wait for more information about the possible ramifications. For the purposes of this course, we will not discuss RDA until the very end of the course. There has been a lot written about the change to RDA that is scheduled to start in January 2013. Tom Adamich had this to say about RDA and school libraries:
For the school library community, RDA will have a limited impact on the daily cataloging and processing of materials entering school libraries, as, in most cases, teacher-librarians do not modify existing cataloging records created by bibliographic utilities, materials publishers, and other bibliographic record vendors.
However, the knowledge by the school library community that RDA is coming will be of great benefit to school librarians who interact directly with vendors in the acquisition of MARC records. It is at this vendor level that RDA will have the most direct impact. According to Barbara Schultz-Jones; Assistant Professor, School Library Program, Department of Library and Information Sciences - College of Information, University of North Texas; RDA will give online catalogs the potential for new displays of related resources. According to Ms. Schultz-Jones:
I think it's important for school librarians to realize there will be new MARC tags to enable these connections and also realize that the vendors must get going on enabling the displays. When the K-12 students get to college, they will encounter RDA-enabled catalogs, and that means they should be introduced to the potential [provided by RDA rules/processes] early in the K-12 years.